may have won a snap election in venezuela but it came with an hour west of margins ultimately revealing the vast chasm within the oil rich nation. fears the successes of socialism could now be on the risk of being ruined. north korea marks the high point of its calendar. demonstrated. in memory of the regime's war.

talks. with the us led war ships circling the divided. for a tweet. gets a ten month suspended sentence all in the latest case of religious law pushing aside freedom of expression. it's a pleasure to have you with us this monday here on r.t. . share with your worldwide news live from moscow. the air over. the reins of power in venezuela loud jubilation has been overlapped by fears of potential uncertainty and use of a slimmest of victories in the margin between nicolas maduro and opposition

candidate and that was split almost fifty fifty. this report from caracas. well first of all if you talk about the reaction coming from the supporters of mother oh it was almost instant as soon as the results were announced the fireworks were going off cars were honking and people his supporters on the streets very excited very happy of course about the results but there were there was a lot of waiting really hours of of anticipation people holding their breath because the not the margin really has been very very narrow let me just read to you the latest figures that we have it's fifty point sixty six percent for forty nine point zero seven percent for us this is out of a seventy eight point seven one percent participation and this is about ninety nine percent of the votes counted already at this point initial reaction with little came out saying that the fight will continue the revolution work will continue

alluding very much to google child mrs beauly very and revolution and us had come out though. being very quite negative he came out saying that he there were allegations of voting fraud and he wanted a recount which model had agreed to and it will be interesting to see how the supporters of this will react to this news especially since the margin is so narrow it's almost fifty fifty it's almost half of the country we know that model had a campaign really on the platform evoking who really it was at the core and you have to want something new wanted a change in direction and it's evident you know that the diverse opinion of the two men is evident among the people we've spoken to a lot of them in the past few days are very enthusiastic very passionate about their belief the different direction they want to take a venezuela however what's clear though is that all the citizens regardless of who they voted for a recount was all the problems that they want solved and without

a charismatic character like us to ask assuage the fears of the concerns of citizens it will be a very very tough a challenge for my doodle first of all to unite. a very divided country a second of all to address the problems as we have been finding out in the past few days the campaign has not been long but neither has it been short on passion well we're here in a district that really has support for the. so-called successor of chavez as you can see from all the graffiti here the people really having a very festive attitude and a lot of them selling paraphernalia halley get chavez is really a bastion of chavez support many people tell me of the kind of benefit that they have gained for fourteen years of having chavez as president talking about education talking about the social mischa's which really is a cornerstone of his popularity and the people here are very enthusiastic about giving their opinion about why they support chavez let's talk to the gentleman over here and for him we have one on. the board at the firm a dollar

a month he was chosen by our. healy's to seem revolution we can go forward with what do it with with the cruise we can do nothing it's clear that for many people here who are staunch supporters of chavez a huge part playing here is the loyalty they have little bush obvious and voting for nicolas maduro while over on the other side of the city where here in the district where the main opposition candidate and we kick up early this is the governor and expected when he has a lot of support here most of the people that you see now on the street here have told me that they have indeed voted for a couple listen when you asked him why they did so the word that really comes so repeatedly from their answers is they want a change or let's talk to one of those who actually voted for less. why did you vote for the completeness well i vote for it appears because i think that when a salon it's a better food there and he is the only one that going give us

a better future i don't know merkins think you're ok you're welcome so as you heard her say actually that opinion is repeated in resonated among the supporters of a. they say that they again they want change from after fourteen years of google chavez and also it's noticeable there's a lot of students and a lot of younger people who are also what coming out into districts a supporting him and voting for him. a new man is now at the helm and he inherits childless a socialist legacy a country with some of the world's largest oil reserves and also a nation plagued with longstanding problems such as from the infrastructure and double digit inflation of which its citizens are all too aware when the lack of security is killing us and statistics prove many people have died at night you can't leave your home this is a serious problem. i want change by corruption that's the brahman but as for the corruption the base of the broader economy. everything growing old but brawling

would have been a trial by the corruption the oil price the guy. the government you know has a lot of of probably its spending so we are in a lot of that. we now know the winner but the narrow victory has left venezuela polarized the new leader to go back us bases an uphill battle not just to mend the country's economy and improve living standards but also to match up his charismatic predecessor who casts a very long shadow not just within the country but beyond its borders as well as our cilia are to get across what has been a. and a professor. promote a college she believes the election results actually gives more impetus for the opposition and its supporters that's a further undermined the legacy of venezuela's revolutionary leader we're going to see a continuation of venezuelans foreign policy i think there's

a difference between criticizing us and being anti american i think we'll see a promotion of latin american policy. that is the u.s. is not the dominant issue on their agenda they have relations with russia with china with europe with with latin american countries and we'll see i think a continuity within that that's been part of the strength promoted by the chavez administration and my little we should recall was the foreign minister in charge of thomas' foreign policy why i think the opposition will definitely be emboldened by the may have a small window to operate the venezuelan constitution permits a recall within three years i wouldn't doubt that unless my little gets traction and addresses these issues significantly and quickly the opposition may mount a challenge again in three years that's what they did to what chavez in two thousand and four. now as the polls closed in the whole election fever began to dissipate on the streets of the major cities across venezuela well the political struggle then rushed it off a few notches but on the world of the internet we see the actual twitter of.

a peruvian group. taking responsibility for doing. those photos you can see was also replaced and exactly the same thing happened to the ruling united socialist party. and then official website was also in the government although. the result. more details on this. call well still ahead for you here in the program. at the u.s. citizens ultimately taking tax avoidance to whole new level giving up their american passports and becoming stateless soldiers to flee what they call unfair distribution.

good to have you with us here on r.t. today a nuclear test a missile launch even a military propagation may all be in the offing as north korea marks the apex of its calendar day which experts feared would push pyongyang to demonstrate to its people the power of the north and this year it's coincided with a historically tense moment as pyongyang engages in a standoff with the u.s. japan and south korea warships from those nations currently ring the north's coasts while its own missiles stand ready on launch pads across the country but talks still seem distant washington declaring it is ready and willing quote to reach out to pyongyang but only when the time and conditions of right. now reports from the

frontiers of north korea. monday april the fifteenth is known as the day of the sun in north korea when the nation is celebrating its biggest holiday the birthday of the late leader the founder of the north korean republic kim il sung that's of course the north koreans will be celebrating in the streets in the ever present military parades but the eyes of the world and of course be focused not on the celebrations on the festivities in north korea but on whether young will actually decide to hold missile test launches now the latest reports are suggesting that pyongyang already has a mid range missiles called mustard on which would be able to hit a target at more than two and a half thousand miles and the reaction of the international community to do the possible test launch can be very very serious and could provoke a major conflict in the region stories are especially high because the doesn't seem to be any breakthrough in on the diplomatic level in the talks between the parties in volved on sunday young young again rebuffed the attempts by seoul to hold talks

to resolve the issue or at the negotiations table saying that the proposal itself was nothing more than a crafty trick the leadership in most of the countries of the region china north korea and south korea are new in south in south korea and north korea moreover the leaders are quite young and when they have obviously more news on the world and it is really unclear why china and south korea and japan are not mediating this conflict but clearly it is very interesting to see whether north korea will actually try to hold that this me solid test launches will be see that during the day some reports suggested that north koreans would want to do that on their late leader kim il sung's birthday as is often happening in the countries like north korea when they want to show something to the world and they do it on a particular date which is memorable to the whole nation. it is also interesting to

see the. a transformation of north korea under the embargo under the sanctions which the country has been living in for many years already not only have they managed to build missiles to create missiles which could potentially be dangerous for the whole region and even reach the shores of the western shores of the united states but also there are speculation peculation and there is information that the north korean media barging on the space program and so definitely the this crazy twisted crazy saga of grievances continuing we're watching the situation here in the far east and we'll update our viewers with all the latest developments as we get them throughout the day. live from moscow this is r.t. a world renowned turkish pianist has been handed a ten month suspended prison sentence over tweets mocking islamic prosecutors cited several sarcastic messages about believers and islamic concepts of heaven fastow

say wasn't present at the herring he's currently abroad on to a musician who has served as a cultural ambassador to the european union has always denied the accusations and said he was surprised his country was treating him this way as it is a very emotional report so there could be signs that the secular state of turkey is a christian we dominated by the islamic ideals that appeared to reject almost nine decades of. all these years i thought murder was a sin then i got new instructions from the good lord himself in his favor language english the simpsons has kept its humor close to the bone for many years between turkey's radio and television a supreme council in charge of monitoring media content it's now gone too far if you are more liberal you can say that yes it's not an insult it's a joke but those who are more conservative may feel it and then we'll go on to other of the protection of their beliefs this episode cost a company that broadcasted thirty thousand us dollars the council dominated by the

prime minister's party has fined the same media group for promoting smoking through allianz in america and violence against women up to show it all over stone's alexander without discussing. i can't imagine how celtic broadcasting world will be created for many turkish women real life is far more insulting to them than western movies at first glance they are free to wear and do what they want but the head of the group of women of the republic says there is a lot of pressure on them sure that the reform education system is split into three parts of four yes it's the result thousands of girls leave school before the and encouraging your majesty the state promotes heaven at least five kids only three out of ten women today go to work it's far from a democratic model of society only in turkish opposition says there is a dangerous tendency here nine decades off to turkey broke with islamic rule of the

ottoman empire in favor of a ninety clerical pro western vision the ideas and values that were jacked it appear to some to be making a comeback becoming only. tells you what to do what to do what not to do. what not to eat what to eat with islamic ideas comes islamic symbols this form of greek also books church on the turkish plexi coast is currently a museum no service has been held here for fifty years but so on its walls will once again reign with the sound of prayer this time not led by priests but any mom it's quite a religious conversion a seven century old christian heritage site is about to become a mosque and from that point on will only be open to muslim men access for women will be restricted we don't want to. close visitors we are coming here for a brick for tourists come here it is good for tribes on their earth to offer

miscue around there i think there are enough i guess sophia has already been used as a mosque durance long history after the ottoman sultan conquered turkey today it seems the country. given itself up voluntarily one example could be the leaks drafts for new uniforms for flight attendants on turkish airlines they show the nation's image will be represented by lone captains skirts below the knee and autumn in style fast caps automats the role of all try religious so they they you know laws on sharia and there are many secular people in turkey a thing that you know we don't want such a rule and that's changing changing as turks victimise that our troops way of life the secular way of life did not work in turkey turkey and every gun has made impressive progress it's economy's booming and its role in the region and internationally is increasing but other things are happening too which could put

aside his journey into reverse. from turkey. are now more news with me after a very short break. oh no hoo lazy bureaucratic trivial censorship strikes again but this time in russia a bill has been signed into law that will put fines on individuals and legal and to these for using vulgar in the media one major flaw of many with this is that they really don't know which words are going to be considered vulgar i guess these words are so awful that they cannot even write them down i'm not naïve there has always been and will always be censorship but this where word list is just silly there is a common expression on the russian internet that russian mainstream media connects up more and i is ation of society russian t.v.

does have all the bloody violent action movies as well as scandalous talk shows which are kind of more like freak shows and plenty of reality t.v. where young people pretty much act like subhuman animals in a cage they've got all that so the government is basically saying that if some guy on t.v. because there are twenty people blooded limbs flying that that is totally ok for television unless they come out for bid swear while doing it you can show brainless materialistic dimwits sleeping and fighting with everything that moves on a reality show but if they say that one magic three letter russian word then it is over the line this is not a logical way to conduct censorship but that's just my opinion. three thirty pm here in the russian capital on monday this is barely a day after a high profile blacklist exchange russia's been hosting

a white house national security advisor in an effort to bridge a chasm in relations that washington has recently unveiled a list of russian individuals sanction for what it believes a human rights violations in moscow published a similar list punishing those involved in torture guantanamo bay and violations against russian citizens as foreign minister said get off explain there may still be hope yet. as for russian american relations we heard from tom johnny loan and john kerry that they understand will the negative impact of a hold of very effect on our relationship among those is the magnitsky at least the continuing abuse of it because it's russian children in america rights violations against russian citizens which range from outright kidnappings and are the fact is both john kerry and tom don't need loan surely the barack obama and the white house are aware of how this hurts our relations and that they will act to minimize these

taxes will cease to exist at least will judge by deeds not words topics ranging from north korea to america's missile shield plans are also featured in talks between setting it off or off thomaston eland of the latter also passed a confidential letter from barack obama to vladimir putin a letter to the kremlin says includes valid and constructive proposals on patching up relations. we can find on many more stories about his website including a stop to the invisible war hundreds in washington protest against the remote killers at all to dot com we've got the inside track on the rallies blaming us drones for the killing of people all over the world. and cyprus special if at least three million euros have disappeared from your account and the e.u. sponsored bailout deal all it seems is not lost still on yourself cypriot citizenship those details about it all because. it is tax

day in america which means people are preparing to lighten their wallets to call it square with the government while taxes are often seen as the price to pay for living in a civilized society and i believe the amount people have to stump up is not distributed fairly peter all of this report. taxes no one likes paying them but in the us some are willing to go the extra mile to avoid it there are many people who consider it there are people to do it. and there are really can be great tax advantages for people who want to give up their stuart citizenship it might sound quite drastic but last year over eighteen hundred people did just that one hundred back their american passports some high profile names were among them kung fu star jet li felt he was taking a pounding from the i.r.s. so swap his u.s. citizenship for that singapore joining him there is facebook co-founder eduardo

saverin who avoided a tax bill of around forty million dollars by doing so once you've made the decision to give up your citizenship what happens if you change your mind just how easy is it to get back again. as long as it isn't found that you gave up your citizenship pretty much purely for tax reasons certainly possible but it's not painless you have to go through this process again authorities are considering introducing tougher laws against those who skip pounds tax if you are now through u.s. citizenship and it is determined that you've done this. pretty much purely for tax reasons you could face serious issues with regard to ever returning to the united states but is that the only reason people give for renouncing citizenship mike give back his u.s. passport because he couldn't condone the direction the country was taking two

thousand and eight there was a lot of talk in the news about. america going to leave all options on the table with respect to iran's nuclear program which of course was code for yes what we've deployed nuclear weapons against the people of iran i said to myself the. if the united states. commits another mass atrocity by deploying a nuclear weapon or say deploying chemical biological weapons. i'm just going to give up my citizenship i just you know give up on this country my kids now what is known as a stateless person as he didn't take on any other citizenship despite now living in slovakia you know the zone is obviously a great place to be for somebody in my situation because if you're going to be in a cage as i say this is a very nice one europe is is lovely he says he has no regrets about the decision

you know we've got drone killings without warrant of even american citizens and whoever you know and their relatives overseas we've got. you know the president has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous presidents combined despite his campaign promises to the contrary. you know there's a laundry list i don't need to go specifically into obama i think this is a it's a feature of the system be it for tax purposes or personal reasons like mike the number of people choosing to jump ship is really an eight fold since two thousand and eight making it a serious choice for a growing amount peter all of a bill in our story to iraq now to crank up the r.t. well at least thirty two people are being killed and two hundred injured in a spate of bomb attacks in towns and in the north and south of iraq is that most of the blasts were car bombs one those set off at least by a suicide bomber of explosions happened just days before citizens vote in

prevention elections and. a fourteen candidates have now been killed in the lead up to the poll. the deadline passes today for thirty eight french ministers to declare their assets publicly register it will include a list of bank deposits and property held by the officials of president francois hollande is carrying out the move to calm the scandal over the budget minister who was forced to resign last month he's been charged with tax fraud over secret bank account. forty seven people have been arrested outside the naval base in scotland housing the u.k.'s nuclear deterrent of a submarine mounted trident missiles and the group called scrap trident is running into them on the weapons disarmed and the funds from the program go instead to disability benefits education and welfare and the earlier stages similar protest in the center of glasgow with trade union members scottish m.p.'s and the austerity

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your language. kelly pickler though if they feel some of. the concerns get. the opinions that you think are great. choose the stories that in life choose access to your office. hello and welcome to the r t sports show hop an hour of talkback shows from russia and around the world with me to take part and fears for some of what's to come. title race defending champions in a narrow the gap to lead to their status six points with six games to go in the russian premier league. but army marchand says garbage

caliber in both their opening home matches to take a commanding two male lead in their best of five series in the euro league playoffs . and need for speed as the two beers up to host formula one next year plus those also set the stage for big races this season on board will do. but let's kick off with the russian premier league where defending champions need to narrow the gap at the top to six points after winning one nil of locomotive but still lead the way which is on poor feet reports. serious crime remain top disappoint dropping points for the first time in six months after being held to a goal is true in moscow damaged nama. having only when to destroy in front side. defending champions to me there.